David's Reviews > Drop City

For me, some novels just blur after putting them down, and I don't remember anything significant about the book (a new friend potentially) that I had spent hours with. A lot of crime novels are like that, but with Drop City I recall almost all the plot and the details. Such an interesting book about a class of people whom I especially loathed at the time, until I came back from overseas and got to know a few of them through work and friends of friends, namely, hippies, political radicals, religious nuts, macho men who were anything but that. Boyle was one of those Haight-Ashbury types who kept one eye open while living high and producing a magnificent black comedic condemnation, which is compassionate also, of those times in the 1960's when many of us were mixed up, lost and headed in every direction but head on. (Don't go to Alaska without first reading Drop City.) I will read more T.C. Boyle, because of his accurate observations of some people that I have known.